With just over 50MP and 15 stops of dynamic range at its beck and call, the A1’s sensor can produce some truly stunning stills images. Whether you’re shooting landscapes, portraits, wildlife, street photography or reportage, this is a camera that can rise to the occasion. I’ve always felt anything over about 25MP was overkill detail-wise, but the ability to crop down to a tiny section of a photo and still have a sharp, noise-free and impactful image is an undeniable benefit of such a hi-res sensor, particularly when shooting wildlife and other far-off subjects.
The large sensor makes it a good low light performer too, although after dark photographers will probably get better mileage out of the cheaper Sony A7S III, designed more specifically with low light performance in mind. For videographers, the A1 is a veritable box of ambrosia-flavoured chocolates with a sprinkling of fairy dust. The most demanding of filmmakers will love that it’s possible to output 16-bit RAW to an external recorder via the HDMI port, but even for internal recording it can record 10-bit 4:2:0 footage at up to 8K resolution.
Built-in picture profiles like S-Log3, Hybrid Log Gamma and S-Cinetone make it easy to shoot for effective post-production colour grading, while the choice of frame rates (from 24fps to 240fps, depending on the resolution) allows for some beautiful slo-mo sequences.
Unless you have a monster of a PC, 8K files can be hard to work with (just trying to import them into my video editing program caused it to crash several times) and that’s before you even start looking for something to watch them on, but I can definitely see the value, detail-wise, of the ability to record video at 8K, then down-sample to 4K in your editing suite. And as native 8K displays gain popularity in the future, it might even become worth using on its own. But in general, the 4K clips output by the A1 offer more than enough crisp detail and colour depth to satisfy filmmakers, and the ability to shoot them in up to 120fps is a huge bonus.
The Link LonkMay 21, 2021 at 11:13PM
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